Is Life Fair?

神崎ロン。
Sep 4, 2018 · 5 min read

Inevitable death.
People always strive to reach, to find, and to form utopia by their own wisdom about death and life after death. However, there is nothing that can guarantee the certainty of eternal life. So many religious practices emphasize that through living piety, good deeds and religious and belief rituals can provide a lasting assurance and peace in our inner hearts. But at a certain time when we fall into temptation, or the percentage of our evil deeds is more than our good deeds, or our spiritual leaders are ensnared in sin, is there peace in our hearts? We ourselves can honestly answer it: "Never." Mind not the rest of our lives, if we want to be honest, we would frankly admit it that in the past week alone we are more inclined to think about sin, than to explore the truth and practice of living piety right? Meanwhile, death looms in the horizon without firm certainty in terms of gaining eternal life in accordance with the rewards of the good deeds we do.

When we demand justice.
If God has set the standard of charity and good deeds in a scale ranging from 1 to 10, and the number of 10 as a benchmark for the number of good deeds for people so that eternal life can be obtained, whether by collecting 6 good deeds, can that give us a guarantee of life after death? What if on a scale of 8? Or in a scale of 9.9? In the scale of 9.9999? Or is it just a little less than 10, or 10 minus? The answer is for sure that our worship which is below the scale of 10 is unable to change God’s consistency in His perfection of what is just or unjust. If we are human beings, who have never escaped from the fall of temptation, how can we be able to offer our charity as many as 10 of our imperfect lives? The Bible says:
As it is written,
「There is none righteous, no, not one:
 There is none that understandeth,
 there is none that seeketh after God.」

Romans 3:10-11 (KJV)

in another verse, it says:
But we are all as unclean thing,
 and all our righteousnesses
are as filthy rags;
 and we all do fade as a leaf;

and our iniquities,
 like the wind,
 have taken us away.

Isaiah 64:6 (KJV)

He answered.
But now the righteousness of God
 without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
 Even the righteousness of God
which is by faith of Jesus Christ
 unto all and upon all them that believe:
 for there is no difference:

For all have sinned,
 and come short of the glory of God;

Being justified freely by his grace
 through the redemption
 that is in Christ Jesus:

Whom God hath sets forth to be a propitiation
 through faith in his blood,
to declare his righteousness
 for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God;
 To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness:
 that he might be just,
and the justifier of him
 which believes in Jesus.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded.
 By what law? of works?
Nay: but by the law of faith.

Therefore we conclude
that a man is justified by faith
 without the deeds of the law.

Romans 3:21-28 (KJV)

Maybe there are people who are indifferent or so ignorant to all this because they think "God doesn't know what I have been through." Or "God does not understand what I am facing now." There is one verse in the Bible that once knocked on the door of my heart while I was in these situations:
But God commendeth his love toward us,
 in that, while we were yet sinners,
 Christ died for us .

Romans 5:8 (KJV)

The verse seemed to say to me, "Where were you when I was anxious to think of the suffering that I must endure to sweat my blood when I was speaking in prayer to the Father? Did you take the cross with Me while climbing the Golgotha ​​hill? Were you around comforting Me when the Father was punishing sin through my body and leaving me in the “darkest hours” before I commended my spirit in His hand? Such is the love of the Father through me for you. "

Regret and disappointment are changed into gratitude by His grace.
For by grace are ye saved through faith;
 and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God: Not of works,
 lest any man should boast.

For we are his workmanship,
 created in Christ Jesus
unto good works,
 which God hath before ordained
 that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 2:8-10 (KJV)

What can make us more confident in living a life which we start in the morning and knowing that God has prepared everything today so that we live triumphantly in the power of God? It is said above that "which God hath before ordained." When is that? Was it yesterday? The answer is: Before the world was created. Know this for sure, that whatever we may face today, all that happened is still in God's control. Never for a moment does His attention shift away from His children, especially because He's Omnipresent, Omnipotent and loving kindness. God has set Christ Jesus as the perfection of His scale, in whom we are now having the confidence of the everlasting life.

Immanuel.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities:
 for we know not what we should pray for as we ought:
but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us
 with groanings which cannot be uttered.
And he that searcheth the hearts
 knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit,
 because he maketh intercession for the saints
 according to the will of God.

And we know that all things
 work together for good

to them that love God,
 to them who are the called
 according to his purpose❞

Romans 8:26-28 (KJV)

神崎ロン。

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